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Author: Deborah Baker Publisher: Penguin Books India ISBN: 9780670082285 Category : Languages : en Pages : 262
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In 1961, Allen Ginsberg Left New York By Boat For Bombay. He Brought With Him His Troubled Lover, Peter Orlovsky, And A Plan To Meet Up With Poets Gary Snyder And Joanne Kyger. He Left Behind Not Only Fellow Beats Jack Kerouac, Gregory Corso, And William Burroughs, But Also The Relentless Notoriety That Followed The Publication Of Howl, The Epic Work That Branded Him The Voice Of A Generation. Drawing From Extensive Research, Undiscovered Letters, Journals, And Memoirs, Acclaimed Biographer Deborah Baker Has Woven A Many-Layered Literary Mystery Out Of Ginsberg S Odyssey. A Blue Hand Follows The Poet And His Companions As They Travel From The Ashrams Of The Himalayan Foothills To Delhi Opium Dens And The Burning Pyres Of Benares. They Encounter An India Of Charlatans And Saints, A Country Of Spectacular Beauty And Spiritual Promise And Of Devastating Poverty And Political Unease. In Calcutta, Ginsberg Discovers A Circle Of Hungry Young Writers Whose Outrageousness And Genius Are Uncannily Reminiscent Of His Own Past. Finally, Ginsberg Searches For Hope Savage, The Mysterious And Beautiful Girl Whose Path, Before She Disappeared, Had Crossed His Own In Greenwich Village, San Francisco, And Paris. In Their Restless, Comic And Oft-Times Tortured Search For Meaning, The Beats Looked To India For Answers While India Looked To The West. A Blue Hand Is The Story Of Their Search For God, For Love, And For Peace In The Shadow Of The Atomic Bomb. It Is Also A Story Of India Its Gods And Its Poets, Its Politics And Its Place In The American Imagination. A Fabulous Book Comic, Tragic, And Written With Great Verve And Nerve About The Beats And Their Passage To India Michael Ondaatje A Passionate Account Of The Beats At Home And In The World & A Truly Vivid, Wonderful Book Kiran Desai, Author Of The Inheritance Of Loss A Fascinating History Of The Weirdest Moment In The Long And Ongoing European And American Search For The Answer To It All In India Wendy Doniger, University Of Chicago Baker Evokes Strange Worlds And Distant Times In A Narrative That Never Fails To Flow And That, In The End, Is Admirably Illuminating Kirkus Reviews [A] Thoroughly Compelling Work Of Illuminating Literary And Spiritual History Booklist A Piece Of Devoted Scholarship And Legwork The New York Times
Author: William Least Heat-Moon Publisher: University of Missouri Press ISBN: 0826273254 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 182
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Winner, Distinguished Literary Achievement, Missouri Humanities Council, 2015 The story behind the writing of the best-selling Blue Highways is as fascinating as the epic trip itself. More than thirty years after his 14,000-mile, 38-state journey, William Least Heat-Moon reflects on the four years he spent capturing the lessons of the road trip on paper—the stops and starts in his composition process, the numerous drafts and painstaking revisions, the depressing string of rejections by publishers, the strains on his personal relationships, and many other aspects of the toil that went into writing his first book. Along the way, he traces the hard lessons learned and offers guidance to aspiring and experienced writers alike. Far from being a technical manual, Writing Blue Highways: The Story of How a Book Happenedis an adventure story of its own, a journey of “exploration into the myriad routes of heart and mind that led to the making of a book from the first sorry and now vanished paragraph to the last words that came not from a graphite pencil but from a letterpress in Tennessee.” Readers will not find a collection of abstract formulations and rules for writing; rather, this book gracefully incorporates examples from Heat-Moon’s own experience. As he explains, “This story might be termed an inadvertent autobiography written not by the traveler who took Ghost Dancing in 1978 over the byroads of America but by a man only listening to him. That blue-roadman hasn’t been seen in more than a third of a century, and over the last many weeks as I sketched in these pages, I’ve regretted his inevitable departure.” Filtered as the struggles of the “blue-roadman” are through the awareness of someone more than thirty years older with a half dozen subsequent books to his credit, the story of how his first book “happened” is all the more resonant for readers who may not themselves be writers but who are interested in the tricky balance of intuitive creation and self-discipline required for any artistic endeavor.
Author: Peter T. Coleman Publisher: Columbia University Press ISBN: 0231552157 Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 453
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The partisan divide in the United States has widened to a chasm. Legislators vote along party lines and rarely cross the aisle. Political polarization is personal, too—and it is making us miserable. Surveys show that Americans have become more fearful and hateful of supporters of the opposing political party and imagine that they hold much more extreme views than they actually do. We have cordoned ourselves off: we prefer to date and marry those with similar opinions and are less willing to spend time with people on the other side. How can we loosen the grip of this toxic polarization and start working on our most pressing problems? The Way Out offers an escape from this morass. The social psychologist Peter T. Coleman explores how conflict resolution and complexity science provide guidance for dealing with seemingly intractable political differences. Deploying the concept of attractors in dynamical systems, he explains why we are stuck in this rut as well as the unexpected ways that deeply rooted oppositions can and do change. Coleman meticulously details principles and practices for navigating and healing the difficult divides in our homes, workplaces, and communities, blending compelling personal accounts from his years of working on entrenched conflicts with lessons from leading-edge research. The Way Out is a vital and timely guide to breaking free from the cycle of mutual contempt in order to better our lives, relationships, and country.
Author: Michael Cabbage Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 0743266986 Category : Transportation Languages : en Pages : 358
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On February 1, 2003, the unthinkable happened. The space shuttle Columbia disintegrated 37 miles above Texas, seven brave astronauts were killed and America's space program, always an eyeblink from disaster, suffered its second catastrophic in-flight failure. Unlike the Challenger disaster 17 years earlier, Columbia's destruction left the nation one failure away from the potential abandonment of human space exploration. Media coverage in the immediate aftermath focused on the possible cause of the disaster, and on the nation's grief. But the full human story, and the shocking details of NASA's crucial mistakes, have never been told -- until now. Based on dozens of exclusive interviews, never-before-published documents and recordings of key meetings obtained by the authors, Comm Check takes the reader inside the conference rooms and offices where NASA's best and brightest managed the nation's multi-billion-dollar shuttle program -- and where they failed to recognize the signs of an impending disaster. It is the story of a space program pushed to the brink of failure by relentless political pressure, shrinking budgets and flawed decision making. The independent investigation into the disaster uncovered why Columbia broke apart in the sky above Texas. Comm Check brings that story to life with the human drama behind the tragedy. Michael Cabbage and William Harwood, two of America's most respected space journalists, are veterans of all but a handful of NASA's 113 shuttle missions. Tapping a network of sources and bringing a combined three decades of experience to bear, the authors provide a rare glimpse into NASA's inner circles, chronicling the agency's most devastating failure and the challenges that face NASA as it struggles to return America to space.
Author: Antonio Gramsci Publisher: Columbia University Press ISBN: 0231548869 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 164
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Antonio Gramsci is widely celebrated as the most original political thinker in Western Marxism. Among the most central aspects of his enduring intellectual legacy is the concept of subalternity. Developed in the work of scholars such as Gayatri Spivak and Ranajit Guha, subalternity has been extraordinarily influential across fields of inquiry stretching from cultural studies, literary theory, and postcolonial criticism to anthropology, sociology, criminology, and disability studies. Almost every author whose work touches upon subalterns alludes to Gramsci’s formulation of the concept. Yet Gramsci’s original writings on the topic have not yet appeared in full in English. Among his prison notebooks, Gramsci devoted a single notebook to the theme of subaltern social groups. Notebook 25, which he entitled “On the Margins of History (History of Subaltern Social Groups),” contains a series of observations on subaltern groups from ancient Rome and medieval communes to the period after the Italian Risorgimento, in addition to discussions of the state, intellectuals, the methodological criteria of historical analysis, and reflections on utopias and philosophical novels. This volume presents the first complete translation of Gramsci’s notes on the topic. In addition to a comprehensive translation of Notebook 25 along with Gramsci’s first draft and related notes on subaltern groups, it includes a critical apparatus that clarifies Gramsci’s history, culture, and sources and contextualizes these ideas against his earlier writings and letters. Subaltern Social Groups is an indispensable account of the development of one of the crucial concepts in twentieth-century thought.
Author: Deborah Baker Publisher: Penguin Books India ISBN: 9780670082285 Category : Languages : en Pages : 262
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In 1961, Allen Ginsberg Left New York By Boat For Bombay. He Brought With Him His Troubled Lover, Peter Orlovsky, And A Plan To Meet Up With Poets Gary Snyder And Joanne Kyger. He Left Behind Not Only Fellow Beats Jack Kerouac, Gregory Corso, And William Burroughs, But Also The Relentless Notoriety That Followed The Publication Of Howl, The Epic Work That Branded Him The Voice Of A Generation. Drawing From Extensive Research, Undiscovered Letters, Journals, And Memoirs, Acclaimed Biographer Deborah Baker Has Woven A Many-Layered Literary Mystery Out Of Ginsberg S Odyssey. A Blue Hand Follows The Poet And His Companions As They Travel From The Ashrams Of The Himalayan Foothills To Delhi Opium Dens And The Burning Pyres Of Benares. They Encounter An India Of Charlatans And Saints, A Country Of Spectacular Beauty And Spiritual Promise And Of Devastating Poverty And Political Unease. In Calcutta, Ginsberg Discovers A Circle Of Hungry Young Writers Whose Outrageousness And Genius Are Uncannily Reminiscent Of His Own Past. Finally, Ginsberg Searches For Hope Savage, The Mysterious And Beautiful Girl Whose Path, Before She Disappeared, Had Crossed His Own In Greenwich Village, San Francisco, And Paris. In Their Restless, Comic And Oft-Times Tortured Search For Meaning, The Beats Looked To India For Answers While India Looked To The West. A Blue Hand Is The Story Of Their Search For God, For Love, And For Peace In The Shadow Of The Atomic Bomb. It Is Also A Story Of India Its Gods And Its Poets, Its Politics And Its Place In The American Imagination. A Fabulous Book Comic, Tragic, And Written With Great Verve And Nerve About The Beats And Their Passage To India Michael Ondaatje A Passionate Account Of The Beats At Home And In The World & A Truly Vivid, Wonderful Book Kiran Desai, Author Of The Inheritance Of Loss A Fascinating History Of The Weirdest Moment In The Long And Ongoing European And American Search For The Answer To It All In India Wendy Doniger, University Of Chicago Baker Evokes Strange Worlds And Distant Times In A Narrative That Never Fails To Flow And That, In The End, Is Admirably Illuminating Kirkus Reviews [A] Thoroughly Compelling Work Of Illuminating Literary And Spiritual History Booklist A Piece Of Devoted Scholarship And Legwork The New York Times
Author: Deb Baker Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 1440629315 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 260
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In this engrossing new piece of Beat history, Pulitzer Prize finalist Deborah Baker takes us back to the moment when America's edgiest writers looked to India for answers as India looked to the West. It was 1961 when Allen Ginsberg left New York by boat for Bombay, where he hoped to meet poets Gary Snyder and Joanne Kyger. Baker follows Ginsberg and his companions as they travel from ashram to opium den. Exposing an overlooked chapter of the literary past, A Blue Hand will delight all those who continue to cherish the frenzied creativity of the Beats.
Author: Victoria Rosner Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0192583816 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 358
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Changes in the routines of domestic life were among the most striking social phenomena of the period between the two World Wars, when the home came into focus as a problem to be solved: re-imagined, streamlined, electrified, and generally cleaned up. Modernist writers understood themselves to be living in an epochal moment when the design and meaning of home life were reconceived. Moving among literature, architecture, design, science, and technology, Machines for Living shows how the modernization of the home led to profound changes in domestic life and relied on a set of emergent concepts, including standardization, scientific method, functionalism, efficiency science, and others, that form the basis of literary modernism and stand at the confluence of modernism and modernity. Even as modernist writers criticized the expanding reach of modernization into the home, they drew on its conceptual vocabulary to develop both the thematic and formal commitments of literary modernism. Rosner's work develops a new methodology for interdisciplinary modernist studies and shows how the reinvention of domestic life is central to modernist literature.
Author: United States. Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments Publisher: ISBN: Category : Human experimentation in medicine Languages : en Pages : 916
Author: Therapy Notebooks Publisher: Therapy Notebooks ISBN: 9781735084688 Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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Reduce your anxiety, manage stress, and become more aware of your thought patterns through this easy-to-use, guided notebook. This notebook utilizes Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, a rigorously-tested & widely-used treatment modality for anxiety, to help you develop the skills to identify, challenge, and change unhelpful thought patterns for the better.
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